Use six.binary_type to produce a .decode()able string

Python3 strings do not have a .decode() method. When clearing
output for command-not-found case use binary_type("") instead of
the empty string. This gives a bytestring on python3 which does
support the decode() method.

Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sos/utilities.py b/sos/utilities.py
index fae424ad..1db23b63 100644
--- a/sos/utilities.py
+++ b/sos/utilities.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def sos_get_command_output(command, timeout=300):
     # Required hack while we still pass shell=True to Popen; a Popen
     # call with shell=False for a non-existant binary will raise OSError.
     if p.returncode == 127:
-        stdout = ""
+        stdout = six.binary_type("")
     
     return {'status': p.returncode, 'output': stdout.decode('utf-8')}